mailbomb: (also mail bomb) [Usenet] 1. v. To send, or urge
others to send, massive amounts of email to a single system or
person, esp. with intent to crash or spam the recipient's system.
Sometimes done in retaliation for a perceived serious offense.
Mailbombing is itself widely regarded as a serious offense -- it can
disrupt email traffic or other facilities for innocent users on the
victim's system, and in extreme cases, even at upstream sites. 2.
n. An automatic procedure with a similar effect. 3. n. The mail
sent. Compare letterbomb, nastygram, BLOB (sense 2),
list-bomb.
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